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- Shriver's opinion that Job Corps would yield results quickly; how Shriver's work for the Chicago Board of Education guided his work in Job Corps; the idea of putting the Job Corps under the Department of Defense; LBJ's support for…
- [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority…
- Meeting LBJ; the relationship between LBJ and JFK; the 1960 campaign; LBJ’s role as Vice-President; LBJ’s Berlin trip in 1961; tension between LBJ and RFK; the Committee for Equal Employment Opportunities; why JFK went to Texas in November 1963…
- Appointment and service as Postmaster General by JFK, re-appointment by LBJ, Adlai Stevenson’s statement at first Cabinet meeting. Differences in JFK and LBJ attitudes towards Cabinet (preferred LBJ’s). Johnson’s influence on Post Office…
- Biographical information; 1957 trip to Vietnam; General Sam Williams; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow report; intelligence; Lionel McGarr; coordination; Diem coup; Harkins and Lodge; KATUSAs; Westmoreland; State Department; bombing campaign; Taylorâ…
- The origin of Shriver’s interest in poverty-related issues; Shriver’s involvement with trade unionism, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the board of education in Chicago; Shriver’s work in the 1940s with Eunice Kennedy on the Continuing…
- North Vietnam’s reaction to LBJ’s 3/31/1968 speech; negotiating a location for meeting with the North Vietnamese; LBJ’s goals for the end of his presidency, including a tax increase; LBJ’s meeting with Levi Eshkol of Israel at the Ranch;…
- Craig Raupe and Joe Henry H. Fowler stories; LBJ